Lucille Brisboy, 82
Lucille Brisboy, 82, passed away on Thursday, June 22, 2006, in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, 2006, at Coffelt's Funeral Chapel, 109 N. Division St., in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Lucille was born Ethel Lucille Metcalf on Aug. 14, 1923, in Fort Collins, Colo. She was placed in an orphanage during the depression in Cheyenne, Wyo., when she was about 10, later she went to a girls school in Sheridan, Wyo., where she graduated high school in 1940.
She then moved to Caruthers, Calif., where she met and married her first husband, Gerald Henderson, in 1944. Lucille picked cotton in the fields there before moving with her husband to Buena, Wash., in 1945. Her daughter Agnes was born in Yakima that same year. Lucille later divorced in 1948 and moved to Rainer, Wash., where she did housekeeping and farm work for a trainer of brahma bulls and horses for rodeos.
There she met and married her second husband, Marvin Hazeltine, in 1951. They then moved first to Yelm then to Eatonville before moving to Moscow, Idaho, in 1953. In Moscow Lucille worked for a company sorting peas. She moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, in 1957 with her husband and daughter. In Sandpoint she worked for three years washing dishes and cooking for Connie's Cafe.
She quit soon after becoming pregnant with her second daughter, Marsy, who was born in 1960. Two years later she again divorced in 1962.
Lucille and Howard met in 1964 and they were married in February 1965. She moved to the farm on Brisboy Hill, where she helped Howard with the dairy.
She milked cows and sold the milk to Dairygold for 14 years before they both retired in 1979. Selling all the cattle they took off on vacation for three weeks. Returning home they once again bought a couple cows and sold milk to the community for many years. They lived together on the place until Howard died in 1995.
Lucille loved going to yard sales and collecting salt and pepper shakers. Her collection numbers around 3,000 pairs, no two of which are exactly alike. She also enjoyed feeding the birds, and flocks of turkeys would stop by regularly for lunch. The hummingbirds also kept her occupied watching them fight over the nectar she made for them all summer long.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Nathaniel McKinley and Ethel Agnes Metcalf (Yockey); two brothers, Roy and Lloyd; four sisters, Audrey, Ginger, Bonnie and Agnes; and her husband Howard Brisboy.
She is survived by her children, Agnes Trapp of Sagle, Idaho; and Marsy Brisboy of Cocolalla, Idaho; a sister, June Applegren of Nebraska; grandchildren, Wendy, Jessica, Heidi, Rebecca, Crystal, Ebony, Erika, Charles and Colin; great-grandchildren, Alyssa, Ayla and Adrianna; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Coffelt Funeral Service of Sandpoint.